We’ve always known that the city’s many community email lists are beehives of communication. Whether being used to promote neighborhood awareness or flush out arguments over local zoning ordinances, the email lists represent the best, the worst and the funniest of living in a densely populated urban area.

This weekend the MPD-1D email list, used by police and residents living and working in the First District, was alive with controversy over a suspect ice cream truck on Capitol Hill. Elaine was first to raise the issue:

Just an observation… Never have I lived where the ice cream truck drives around late at night with the music playing. In the five months I’ve lived here, I’ve never seen a single child buy ice cream from this van… but my husband has witnessed adults flock around it. Legitimate sugar fix? or a fix of a different type? Would be a great cover, wouldn’t it?

A number of residents were quick to knock down the suspicion, noting that they had seen plenty of kids buying ice cream from the late-night vendor. Elaine might not be crazy, though, chimed in Caroline Jhingory:

I am the Ward 6 coordinator in the mayor’s office of Community Affairs and Relations.

I have received various reports of an icecream truck in the Bay St area that may be selling drugs/alcohol and blares loud music t/o the night.

Uncertain, if this is one truck in particular, but if someone can send me the tag number and/or a description of this truck I can check on its’ permitts.

Be forewarned, DCist readers. If you find yourself on the eastern end of Capitol Hill late on a Friday night with nothing to do and a bit of an appetite, this guy may have you covered.